Chords for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Gates Of The Garden

[Am] _ _ Past the ivy-covered [E] windows of the Angel _ [Am] _ Down Athenaeum Lane
To [Dm] the Cathedral _ [G] Through _ _
_ _ [Am] _ the churchyard I wandered
[Em] Sat _ [Am] for a spell there _ _ And [Dm] I ponder
[G] My _ back [F] to the gates _ [G] My back [F] to the gates
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My back [F] to the gates [G] _ _
_ [C] Of the garden _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ Fugitive fathers Sickly infants
Decent mothers Runaways
And suicidal [Dm] lovers _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ Assorted boxes of ordinary bones
_ Of aborted plans and sudden [Dm] Shattered _ hopes
[G] _
_ In unlucky [F] rows _ [Am] In [G] _ _ unhappy [F] rows
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_ In unlucky [F] rows [Am] Up to [G] the gates of [C] the garden _ _
[F] _ _ [G] Won't [C] you meet me _ [G] at the gates Won't [C] you meet me [G] at the gates
Won't you meet me at the gates To [C] the garden _
Beneath _ _ _ [Am] _ the creeping shadow of the tower _ The _ bell from St.
Edmund's informs me [Dm] of the hour _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] I turn to find you waiting there for [C] me _ [Am] _ In the sunlight and I see the way [Dm] that you breathe _
[G] All alive [F] and leaning _ _
[G] _ _ _ [F] Alive and leaning
[G] All _ alive and [F] leaning Leaning [G] on the gates [C] to the garden _ _
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Leave these ancient places to the angels Let the saints attend to [Dm] the keeping of their cathedral _
[G] And _ _ [Am] _ leave the dead beneath the ground so cold _ For God is in this hell _ [Dm] that I hold _
[G] _ [Bm] As we [F] open up the gates _
[G] _ As we open up [F] the gates
_ [G] We [F] open up the _ gates [G] _ _ To [C] the garden _ _
[F] Won't [G] _ [C] you meet me [G] at the gates [C] Won't you meet me [G] at the gates
[C] Won't you meet me [G] at the gates To [C] the garden _ _
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